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Tai Koester: New Era has dedicated CU student volunteers

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11/14/2017 07:10:10 PM MST

The article published on Nov. 11 titled "Student vote may have rescued Boulder municipalization" by staff writer Alex Burness was incredibly duplicitous and a far cry from impartial, honest reporting. Burness conveniently used a handful of students with little understanding of the muni process to essentialize the entire student vote as one comprised of mindless bots and even used phrases like "easy sell" to aid the illustration of New Era as a suspect political organization, operating in the shadows like Koch dark money. New Era's campus presence is composed primarily of dedicated student volunteers who are passionate about politics at all levels of government. This article denies any possibility that there are students on campus who follow and are engaged in local politics and appears to suggest that young voters as a whole are clueless and shouldn't have the right to vote. From my own experience as a student at CU, I can attest that many students care about local politics, are concerned about climate change, and believe that the truly pragmatic path forward is through municipalization; not backing down from Xcel's threats.

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